On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 08:56:05 -0600, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 08:36:47 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: >>>> >>>>Not unless the input or output or both are PDSE. See the fine manual for >>>>details. >>>> >>>Hmmm. So could one circumvent by COPYGRP from a PDS to a temporary PDSE, >>>thence to a destination PDS? Weird. And two trips through the Binder. >> >>Exactly. Even though I always carry PDS (PDS86) with me, I like to rely on >>tools that are available everywhere. This is in my "tool kit": >> >Doesn't it kinda make you question the rationale for the restriction? >PDS can be used for either input or output, but not both. > >Is there any reason this can't be done in a single step? > None. Just the way my mind pictured it working when I wrote the JCL. > >BTW, another broken reformatter. Notice the unrendered >ampersand in the DSN= ... It's broken in the raw HTML on >the website. > Just noticed that. I post from the web interface. I don't know what it would look in the archives if I sent the double ampersand in an email to the listserv. Did you fix it for your post or leave it as it was? Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
